
          Recd.[Received] & Ansd.[Answered]
Apr. 6th

Ipswich, April 3, 1841

Dear Sir,

I have been for several days engaged in
putting up a collection of N. E. [New England] plants from Viburnum
to the End of the Compositae for you, but Mr. Tuckerman
informs me that you will be "ready to publish" print?
on a few weeks. Will you be so good as to write me
a few lines & let me know whether it is too late to
send them to be of use in your next number?

Mr. Audubon informed me last summer that you had
removed from N. York, which is one reason I have
not sent them before as I did not know whether
the old directions, John St. would bring them to you.

The year before last
I made two visits to Plymouth, Mass. & found many rare
plants, several new to N.E. [New England.] I consider the number of
N. England plants (the [Crossed out: ?] [Added: nominal] species being reduced according to your
& my notions, & also [Crossed out: allowing] [Added: including] all [Crossed out: plants] introduced & [Crossed out: partly] pretty fairly natd.[naturalized?]
plants) [crossed out: plants a place] to be about [Crossed out: 2000] [Added: 1800], of which I know of about
1500. The plants of N. York are probably still more numerous.

{Crossed out: Plym] The 
Town of Plymouth (18 miles in diametere!) is a very curious region,
of which I will write you at a better opportunity, indeed I
I have now a letter written on that subject to you more than a
year ago, not sent.

Last year I went to the west of Mass. in
the [Crossed out: spring] & to Burlington Vt. in the spring & again to Burlington Vt.
in the fall "treading in the footsteps" of Dr. Robbins, as good
        